PNK Stylophonic Giftshop stylophone eponymous drum and bass breaks Crumpl

PNK Stylophonic Giftshop

Usually I get into new music and bands through covers then check out their oriignals, but this is the exception – YouTube randomly suggested the breaks/drum and bass stylophone track ‘eponymous’ by the PNK Stylophonic Giftshop – very Crumpl – and I stayed for the covers, which are good but I like the originals more. Think library music, psych, synth, big beat, like in ‘Drop The Stylus’

The covers are probably the most accessible – love this one of Spanish Flea, as is the one of Tequila.

PNK Stylophonic Giftshop are Fluff Tadpole and Smokey Stubbs and ‘executively produced’ by Laalo Giuseppe and their videos are geeky yet fun with their Easter Eggs and BBC intros. <ore than just nostalgia – I’ve just invented a new word ‘neostalgia’ for a reinvention of a past in new terms…although like retrofuturist I’ll probably find someone got there first and I just reinvented the lexicographical wheel…

Anyway danger: watching these videos might make you want to go get a Stylophone, the modern ones look rather tasty….yes you can get all sorts of stylophones now, beatboxes and synths.

Given the name they have covered Doctor Who, Star Trek and various library music classics (Alan Hawkshaw and Keith Mansfield get big shouts) but I like their ska covers the best, Liquidator by Harry J Allstars, and Prince Buster/Madness with One Step Beyond.

And like eponymous, I like the rather strange theme to ‘The Axe and the Oven Glove’ – I guess a Scarfolk like invention.

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